The Ledger, every show
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks, across all 44 shows. Pick shows below, then mix any filter with any other.
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every show 44 of 44
Baer: Bob Guccione Asked Her to Pose Nude in Penthouse
“And then Guccione Wanted to put me in the magazine. He wanted me to be naked in the magazine, and I went.”
Government forced Winston to pull Baer's cigarette ads for looking 16
“They, in fact, with my Winston ads, the government made them tape my ads down, because I always looked young for my age. They thought I looked 16. And that it was just wrong for my image to encourage children to smoke.”
Baer's first staged home sold for $500,000 over asking price
“So the house sold in a matter of days for half a million over asking to the head of one of the studios.”
A rug dealer gave Baer roughly $1 million in inventory on consignment
“And this one gentleman gave me, I mean, probably at one point a million dollars of rugs to use on consignment.”
Meredith Baer Home doubled its revenue every year for its first decade
“Oh, it at least doubled every year for the first 10 years.”
Major developers defaulted on staging fees just before the 2008 housing crash
“We had a lot of really big developers who weren't making their rental payments and were owing us more and more money, and a lot of them went bankrupt.”
Meredith Baer Home manufactures 60% to 70% of its upholstered furniture
“I would say, 60 to 70% of our upholstered furnishings we make.”
Meredith Baer Home maintains 700 to 900 concurrent home staging installations
“Oh, no, more like, we usually have about seven to 900 homes installed at any given time.”
Meredith Baer recently staged a single luxury home for $185,000
“We're just finishing a home right now, as we speak, that was a 185,000 dollar job.”
Baer: Bought and flipped Boulder houses for $8,000 while in college
“Whatever money I could save, I started flipping houses, and at that time in Boulder, you could buy a little house for 2000 dollars, and I'd flip it and sell it for eight, and all I would do really is to make it look cuter.”
Baer: Jerry Bruckheimer cast her in a Pepsi commercial
“He's an ad guy and came up to me and asked me to be in a Pepsi commercial, and I went, yeah, right.”
Meredith Baer sold her debut screenplay 'Prisoners' for $250,000 in 1980
“Well, I sold it for a quarter of a million dollars in 1980.”
Landlord sold Baer's rental home after seeing her decorative makeover
“I found myself fixing up this little house I was renting, and rearranging the furniture, and then I went out and bought about a 150 huge pots, and grew trees, and plants, and flowers, and I was, I just wanted to be in the garden, and make things pretty, and th…”
Baer: Early staging clients provided free rent and paid her to furnish homes
“Not only free rent, they'll pay me to bring my furniture there.”
Real estate brokers coined the term 'staging' to describe Baer's work
“Ok, what happened was, the brokers started to call it staging.”
Meredith Baer Home now operates a fleet of 36 moving trucks
“I mean, I now have 36 trucks, but I never thought I'd be a girl who had 36 trucks.”
Baer was diagnosed with colon cancer the day of a tax audit
“It actually, the very same day I got this news, I found out I had colon cancer.”